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Margaret Jacobs, Chancellor’s Professor of History and director of the Center for Great Plains Studies, has been awarded an Outstanding Research and Creativity Award from the University of Nebraska.

Jacobs to deliver Feb. 21 Inquire lecture

February 15, 2023

Photos of Jeannette Jones and Alex Vazansky

Doctors without borders: Ocean not wide enough to keep Jones, Vazansky apart

February 14, 2023

Ice and snow cover campus. January 19, 2023.

Achievements | Honors, appointments, publications for Feb. 10

February 10, 2023

With a four-year, $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Nebraska historians (from left) Katrina Jagodinsky, William Thomas and Jeannette Eileen Jones, with collaborators from the College of Law Genesis Agosto, Jessica Shoemaker, Eric Berger, Danielle Jefferis and (not pictured) Catherine Wilson, will establish an academic program that enables undergraduate and graduate students to study how various marginalized groups in American history used the law to contest and advance their

Team earns $1M grant to bridge connections between history, civil rights

February 1, 2023

Society & Culture

Graduate Marissa Heimes hugs a friend after the undergraduate commencement ceremony Dec. 17 at Pinnacle Bank Arena. Heimes earned a bachelor’s degree in nutritional science and dietetics.

Fischer urges grads to be ambitious, stay humble, say ‘yes’

December 16, 2022

Everett Bloom (center, holding football) leads a group of student veterans, volunteers and Trev Alberts off the Memorial Stadium turf following a ceremonial beginning to the ruck march on Nov. 15. Bloom, a four-year Navy veteran, is one of the student-veteran organizers of the 2022 march.

Navy vet finds community through ruck, success center

November 18, 2022

"STOMP" will play at the Lied Center for Performing Arts on Nov. 3-4. Alan Schuster, a 1975 Nebraska graduate, is an executive producer with "STOMP," having helped bring them to New York City and the Orpheum Theatre 30 years ago.

Alumnus returns to Nebraska with 'STOMP' at the Lied

October 31, 2022

John Roy Price is pictured in his home.

Nixon administration official to deliver Pauley Lecture Sept. 8

September 6, 2022

Society & Culture

Bowling

Achievements | Honors, appointments, publications for Aug. 12

August 12, 2022

Mugshot of Lloyd Ambrosius

New fund honors Ambrosius, supports future generations of history students

July 15, 2022

Society & Culture

Annabella Pizzi of St. Anselm College, inputs an 1915 Washington court case about a person performing dentistry without a license. Research Experiences for Undergrads.

New research experience has historical, legal focus

July 12, 2022

Society & Culture

Herbie Husker walks the Tunnel Walk route in Memorial Stadium after morning practice.

Achievements | Honors, appointments, publications for July 8

July 8, 2022